Q: Juan Pablo, can you explain how you started on wet tyres and worked
your way down to dries?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: I only actually went through two sets of tyres. We
did the first run on wets, but we knew it was going to get drier and
drier, so we did a decent lap to get us on to the grid and then we had
to really play completely on slick tyres and it really worked well. The
team did absolutely brilliantly, and I think everybody did a fantastic
job.

Q: Yesterday you lost time, everybody lost time, yet here you are on
pole position. Would you advocate in future less practice?

JPM: No, I know the track quite well and I like it. At this moment we
are quickest as well in the dry so it was looking quite promising. On
my first lap on dries it was OK, but it was quite reserved, so I said I
really have to give it a go and I did.

Q: Ralf, you looked incredibly frustrated during qualifying at one
point; what were you saying to the team?

RALF SCHUMACHER: I can't really remember. No, we were discussing what
to do and it wasn't an easy decision to take, actually. At a certain
point, we still had that problem with the intermediate tyre and we had
to go on slicks quite early while some Bridgestone runners still stayed
on intermediates. At the end of the day, it didn't work too bad. It's
always under these conditions that you need to have a bit confidence
that the car's doing well and you need to have good luck. Then you're
there.

Q: As the circuit was drying out, how uniform was it?

RS: It became fairly even. On the main line on the straight it was
already dry with just some corners, especially turn three and four it
was still a bit wet.

Q: Michael, while other drivers were changing tyres, you were changing
from one cars: did you have one set up for wet and one for dry?

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER: Basically, yes.

Q: But it didn't produce the pole you were aiming for. Was there any
particular reason here?

MS: Put it this way, I'm the Bridgestone pole position man today. If you
look at the gap to the next Bridgestone guy it's quite big. We timed
it right for your situation. It looked that way already this morning
when these guys went on dry tyres in slightly damp conditions they got
good grip. You know these tyres have an advantage in one area and then
a disadvantage in another area. A race is going to be a long way and it
should be alright for us.

Q: Juan Pablo, still aiming for your first win, which sort of weather
would you chose for tomorrow?

JPM: No definitely dry. I think the car is working really well on dry.
Yesterday was a big struggle with the set-up but I had a good think
overnight and it really paid off.

PRESS CONFERENCE

Q: How was the car set-up and how much did you change it during the
session?

JPM: Before the start of the session, we decided to keep most of it dry
and do the basic things - maybe the wing and little stuff like that -
and we left it like that. The only thing we added was that as soon as we
put on slick tyres we put on a bit of wing.

Q: How much satisfaction does it give you to be on pole on this circuit
in these conditions?

JPM: It's brilliant. I thought it was going to be close, so I gave it a
really big 'go' the second lap and looking at the time difference it's
brilliant.

Q: How much the track conditions constant for the whole lap?

JPM: Every time you went through a corner it was a bit drier. There were
corners where you couldn't really see the dry bit but there was quite
good grip, surprisingly.

Q: What about the stationary car at Stavelot?

JPM: Not really. You're really out of the corner in the middle of the
straight. It wasn't a big thing. You lifted a little bit.

Q: Ralf, the previous questioner talked about waving your hands around
which we all saw, perhaps you don't remember it

RS: No I can't at all!

Q: Perhaps it was frustration - was it?

RS: No, we had a tyre decision to do and everyone seemed to be a bit
unsure. I'll have to look at it, there wasn't a panic in the pits, it
wasn't that bad, in the end I knew it was going to go quicker. Under
these circumstances you need to be out at the right time, you need to
find the spaces to give 100% and, well, he was simply better today than
I was.

Q: I don't think you were expecting to be this competitive.

RS: Not at all. In the dry it looked that way, somehow yesterday
although we were far away we thought that there might be a fair chance
for us but really it was better than we expected.

Q: And in the wet?

RS: It has become a lot better but there's still a lot of room for
improvement.

Q: Michael, how much of a lottery was this session?

MS: Put it this way, it was very tight for us to use the dry tyres.
Honestly I was lucky, within the lap I went out on dry tyres and the lap
actually I started it did dry up enough just to use the dry tyres and go
faster, because when I went out I was almost sure from our point of view
we couldn't improve. But then in the last lap it just dried out again
just a little bit extra, which helped us.

Q: Are you upset to be third?

MS: No. Why? I mean listen, with the conditions we are, not at all. It's
a long race tomorrow, it's supposed to be dry, I think we're going to
look quick in the dry or in the wet. We may have a little problem I see
now in these intermediate conditions on dry tyres but why be upset?

QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Q: Michael, you had an incident yesterday in the wet - what are your
thoughts on being in traffic?

MS: It's going to be the usual problem we experience at circuits like
Monza, Hockenheim or here - high-speed circuits with a lot of spray on
the straights - which is going to be difficult. Saying that there was an
unusual circumstance with Pedro coming out of the pits and when we are
doing the race we don't expect people to come out of the pits initially
until certain things have sorted out.

Q: Michael, 10 years of Formula 1, this circuit tends to bring out the
best in a driver - what is it that the circuit does to bring that out or
is it that the driver has to be good to be quick here?

MS: It is the usual situation. You need both, you need a good car, good
set-up and then if you're good as a driver you can use the benefit. You
have a lot of high-speed corners, a lot of corner combinations, and that
makes it different to circuits like Hockenheim and Monza where it's only
stop and go.

Q: Juan Pablo and Michael, five of the fastest cars were on Michelins
today - was there any advantage in Toyota testing here recently?

JPM: I don't know how many seconds they were off the pace so it doesn't
really count. Because here we have a tyre that Ralf tested last week.

MS: Different circumstances, different weather... they're going to learn
for sure they are, trying it out and getting some confidence but it is
their first year, we are there for many years so I don't want to get
into this kind of argument and use this as excuses.